...John Considine Cutting up paper slips with pieces of information written on them, sorting them into alphabetical order or some other precise order, and pasting them into books was an important information management strategy in early modern Europe. It does not seem to have been used...

... textual factory. • Little Clippings: Cutting and Pasting Bibles in the 1630s Adam Smyth Balliol College Oxford, United Kingdom...

..., as these essays posit alternative, dispersive, and layered models for the book. By showing that cutting and pasting can rightly be recognized as acts of reading and writing, as specific intellectual gestures, these essays upset much of what has hitherto been known or assumed about literacy, composition...

... and a bewildering array of printed slips (cut from larger sheets, pasted into place, and often modified by hand) to direct his works to specific readers and continue developing his arguments after they had been published. Milles provides our most elaborate example to date of an early modern author whose books...

..., then, the conven- tional metaphor of the slip becomes a transactional object that grants her cultural efficacy and promotes and preserves her work precisely by encourag- ing its cutting, pasting, and reuse across multiple media. Whitney’s challenge to the gendered dichotomies of reading and writing...

... knowledge such as cutting, pasting, inscribing, sewing, and shuffling that Fleming identifies as “work[s] of grammar.”82 Small-­format cartography, printed expressly for the purpose of functioning in different ways for various users who scribbled on and col- lated its pages as they saw fit...

... that posit alternative, dispersive, and layered models for the spaces, or perhaps the temporal events, that comprise them. Con- tributors might consider the literal cutting up of printed and other books, forms of reattachment (sewing, pasting, folding, shellacking), and the con- sequent emergence...

... the literal cutting up of printed and other books, forms of reattachment (sewing, pasting, folding, shellacking), and the con- sequent emergence of new textual objects and orders (for example, the cre- ation of multimedia texts using fabrics and engravings alongside writing, of walls papered with pages...

... modern cut-­outs or decoupage). We think that these practices of cutting and pasting were widespread, and the corpus of collage material to which they gave rise must challenge existing conventions of catalogu- ing and bibliographical description, for it suggests that the division between...

..., with a comb decoration, is particularly German in character. Brown / Cutting, Sticking, and Material Meaning  551 She also noted that the binding almost certainly dates from the eighteenth century, because the plates have been pasted into a blank book, and tape has been...

... – 322 Brown, Georgia E. Cutting, Sticking, and Material Meaning in a Book of Passion Cycle Engravings  543 – 556 Chojnacki, Stanley The Patronage of the Body: Burial Sites, Identity, and Gender in Fifteenth-­ Century Venice  79 – 101 Considine, John Cutting and Pasting Slips: Early Modern...

... Pedagogy, by claiming that identity is edu- cable, seemingly repudiates the tactic of legislating purity by blood. The juridical enactment of race, that traumatic cut into blood and language, is covered over by locating the symbolics of blood safely in a “traditional” past...

... cut and pasted, and they were designed, in turn, to graphically mimic or facilitate such manual processes.16 Drawing attention as much to the formal qualities of these pages as to their content, I aim to expand on scholarship that has interpreted the treatise as a product of its...

...Margaret F. Rosenthal In the past two decades, the multifaceted discipline of the history of medieval and early modern dress has benefited from reconceptualizations of the long, late Middle Ages and Renaissance as having undergone a revolution of consciousness, belief, and thought with global...

... and in the Renaissance, as well as Renaissance writings that explicitly propose the sortes as a mode of reading, this essay argues that the practice, while oracular and prophetic, is linked to a mode of Renaissance pragmatic reading, which is concerned with (figurative) cutting, excerpting, and reaffixing textual...

...- tained, in Ezekiel’s account becoming a part of the land itself. Whatever their precise significance, for late classical and medieval readers their place- ment in both the Old and New Testaments would have connected them to both a distant past and an apocalyptic future, portraying those affiliated...

... to this insult, Philip ordered his men to destroy the offending elm, a task they appear to have carried out with violent enthusiasm. The cutting down of a tree is not a normal way to bring diplomatic conferences to an end, even in the Middle Ages, and the cultural significance of the episode is ripe...

... ballads pasted them onto pages with ornamental frames. Usually the ballad was cut in two and each half placed within its own ornamental frame on facing pages of the volumes. Occasionally the original ballad was itself entirely framed with ornament. In reproducing the Roxburghe ballads...

... of devel- opments in print culture to select, often collectively, favored narratives that made connections to female figures of the past.”5 Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass have observed that the proliferation of pattern books and other sewing tools in early print generated creative outlets...

... that is the coming back of an original past—the realization, in other words, of what was always supposed to be.”2 Regional literature is a pastoral sensibility that operates through the exclusion of whatever is defined as the greater process of history and the nation.3 My starting point is this notion...